Australia Abdullah Al-Ghamdi 201000355 Hamoud Fadhili 200901734 Safer Al-maimoni 200900309 Jehad Al-Ghamdi 200900201 Nabeel Saadi 201100541

Out line History of Australia. Native people of Australia. European exploration. Rules and governments. How the people know it now. References

History of Australia Reason of naming Aborigines before European contact The European discovery. the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area the name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern". The country has been referred to colloquially as Oz since the early 20th century The name Australia was popularised by the explorer Matthew Flinders, who pushed for it to be formally adopted as early as 1804 ||1659 map prepared by Joan Blaeu based on voyages by Abel Tasman and Willem Jansz ------------------- Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. They established among the longest surviving artistic, musical and spiritual traditions known on Earth. ||Truganini, a Tasmanian Aboriginal who survived the outbreak of disease and conflicts which followed the British colonisation of Van Diemen's Land -------------------- The first uncontested landing in Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606. Other European explorers followed intermittently until, in 1770, James Cook charted the East Coast of Australia[1] for Britain and returned with accounts favouring colonisation at Botany Bay (now in Sydney), New South Wales. ||Sir George Bowen, first Governor of Queensland.

Native people of Australia Where they are from. How many where they before the European contact? What happened to the natives. Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. Wich means they where Asian. ||Rock painting at Ubirr in Kakadu National Park. Evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back some 30,000 years. -------------------- At the time of first European contact, it has been estimated the existing population was at least 350,000 , while recent archaeological finds suggest that a population of 750,000 could have been sustained ||A Luritja man demonstrating method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield (1920). According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, in Australia during the colonial period: "In a thousand isolated places there were occasional shootings and spearings. Even worse, smallpox, measles, influenza and other new diseases swept from one Aboriginal camp to another 

European exploration Dutch exploration in the 17th century 1770: Cook's Expedition Land exploration 1788–1900 20th-century explorers شوف وش ممكن تطلع من الصفحه واكتبه هنا لأن فيها كلام كثير مادري وش ممكن يعجبك منه http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_exploration_of_Australia

Rules and governments Indigenous Eroupean Explorers Colonies Human habitation of the Australian continent is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago possibly with the migration of people by land bridges and short sea-crossings from what is now South-East Asia --------------- at the time of European settlement in the late 18th century, most Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturalists and hunter-gatherers Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales: South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859. The Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia. South Australia was founded as a "free province"—it was never a penal colony. Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free", but later accepted transported convicts. A campaign by the settlers of New South Wales led to the end of convict transportation to that colony; the last convict ship arrived in 1848. ---------------- Australia is a constitutional monarchy with a federal division of powers. It uses a parliamentary system of government with Queen Elizabeth II at its apex as the Queen of Australia .

Australia today Culture. Population. Climate. Geography. Legal system. جممع من الروابط كذا كلمه وشوف كيف تبيها http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_exploration_of_Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Oceaniaweb/factfile/Unique-facts- Oceania6.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Parliament_House,_Canberra